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"The United Farm Workers union sued California’s occupational health and safety agency on Thursday, accusing it of doing too little to prevent farm laborers’ deaths from heat illness."
Source: NYTimes, 07/31/2009
"Californians’ Global Warming Fervor Cools"
"Californians’ eagerness to battle global warming seems to be cooling a bit: The latest survey on the state’s environmental attitudes, released on Wednesday, showed that 47 percent consider the threat of global warming very serious, a decline of seven percentage points from two years ago."
Source: NYTimes, 07/31/2009
"Energy Firms Help Pay for State Regulators' Far-Flung Trips"
"State officials who lead California's war on global warming often travel abroad on trips supported by the major greenhouse gas polluters they regulate, a Bee investigation has found. Industry lobbyists and executives routinely join them."
Source: Sacramento Bee, 07/27/2009
"San Francisco Baykeeper Wins Sewage Spill Prevention Settlements"
"Sewage spills that have contributed to water pollution in San Francisco Bay will be reduced under two settlements reached last week between the nonprofit San Francisco Baykeeper and the Town of Hillsborough and the neighborhood of Burlingame Hills."
Source: ENS, 07/24/2009
"Illegal Marijuana Farms Scar Sierra Landscape"
A massive sweep by drug enforcement agents in Fresno County offered new evidence of how illegal marijuana plantations on public lands are scarring the Sierra landscape.
Source: Fresno Bee, 07/23/2009
"Onion Power: Tops, Tails and Skins Become Electricity"
"Tops and tails are becoming much more than garbage at Gills Onions, an onion processor in Oxnard, Calif. Today marks the unveiling of the company's onion-powered electrical system, a first-of-its-kind initiative to turn onion waste into energy."
Source: Reuters, 07/22/2009
"California Mulls Controversial Alternative to Methyl Bromide"
"A controversial alternative to the ozone-depleting pesticide methyl bromide could be in use in Pajaro Valley strawberry fields next year."
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel, 07/17/2009
Dole Sues "Bananas!" Film-Maker For Defamation
Showing of the film, depicting purported harm and claims of sterility by Nicaraguan plantation workers, went ahead at the Los Angeles Film Festival, even though an April 2009 Superior Court ruled that those claims were fraudulent.
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"Feds Document Shrinking San Joaquin Valley Aquifer"
"California's San Joaquin Valley has lost 60 million acre-feet of groundwater since 1961, according to a new federal study. ... The Central Valley is America's largest farming region; it's also the single-largest zone of groundwater pumping."
Source: Sacramento Bee, 07/14/2009
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